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My name is Luis, I am 34 years old and I write from Valladolid, Spain. This city is 200 kms noth from Madrid.

Excuse me, I can read in French, but I can not write. I hope you can understand me.

I love a Mk1 for a long time. My history is a little bit long and start too much time ago. When I was 6 years old, my father bought a 1983 GTI MK1 1800 and from that moment I felt in love of this car. At the same time a friend of my father bought a new antracite GTI 16S from the french market (it was very difficult in those years) and I promised myself I would have a 16S in the far future.

After several cars in my life, in 2004, I got my fist GTI 16s with 210.000kms. It was white and I bought it in Bourdeaux. The car was in very good condition but the engine a little bit tired. I repaired the engine and I drove the car 10.000Kms in 3 years. I loved this car but I felt I wanted a original 16s in antracite, the same colour that my fathers friend had in 1983. For this reason I put on sale the car in 2007 and several days after, the car was sold in Andorra. I cried when the new owner picked the car at home.

Here a pic of this car

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Sold my fist white Oettinger, I start to look for an original antracite 16S. I find it several months later in Rennes, in febrery 2008, my new antracite 16s. The car was nice, but the interior and engine must be refait. The paint looked well.

As soon the car arrived at home, I rebuilt all interior: New original red/black trim, new floormats, new door pannels and new dashboard. Finished the interior in the end of 2008, I started with the engine in 2009 because it was fatigue and the culasse was broken. After six months waiting to find a new culasse I put the car on the road again. Thanks to Gil (Vagsport in this forum) I could to repair my car (he sold me a new culasse in poerfect condition) and thank to him I am again the happy owner and driver of this car. Here some pics of the car with the new interior and with the engine and gearbox rebuilt.



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And in 2011, I started to repair the body. Yes, as you can see above, it looked very nice, but I wanted a full respay (out and inside) to get a 100% perfect finish and take out a little bit of rost under front wings.

My car with the body restored will be ready on the road next week and I will post new photos. For the moment, some pics of the restauration. In the restauration of the body I changed my Bilstein and Eibach for a KW suspenssion....and Supersprint exhaust to improve the sound!!!!


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I promise myself I will never sell the car as I did with the white one. I think the oett is one of the best car in the world because is nice, fast, special and funny. I have had a lot sportscars (bmw z3m, wiesmann, porsche....) but the Oett occupe a big part of my heart

Thanks to all

romaingirardlamamy a écrit:Hi Luis

nice car and love your commitment to give it it s former youth

may I ask what was wrong with the damaged cylinder head?
would you be selling it??

No, I dont sell the car.

I rebuilt all engine.

Hi LUIS,

I realise that I never had taken 5 minutes to say you few words . I take this opportunity to improve my English... Hope it gonna be understandable....

Firstly I want to say WELCOME on our small forum dedicated to this wonderful car, our cherish classic oettinger.

Thanks to you and our Swiss friend (and maybe Romain who lives in London ;=))) our forum will deserve his name "International Oettinger Classic" !

Your former car , the white one, seemed to be in mint condition ! Do you have any news of the new owner?

Just for the story , this car was the subject of an international swindle as a moron try to sell it 3990 euros on autoscout24.com few months ago. It was one of my first post at the very begining of this forum . Guess it was in October 2011. You should have done a lot of pictures when you sold this car. One of this pics was exactly the same that your second oettinger the black one (in the front of the "Grupo eulen" building).

The black is great as well! Hope I'm gonna see it on our "natioanl meeting" in June 2012 in Dijon?

Best regards,
Oett83

Oettinger83 a écrit:Hi LUIS,

I realise that I never had taken 5 minutes to say you few words . I take this opportunity to improve my English... Hope it gonna be understandable....

Firstly I want to say WELCOME on our small forum dedicated to this wonderful car, our cherish classic oettinger.

Thanks to you and our Swiss friend (and maybe Romain who lives in London ;=))) our forum will deserve his name "International Oettinger Classic" !

Your former car , the white one, seemed to be in mint condition ! Do you have any news of the new owner?

Just for the story , this car was the subject of an international swindle as a moron try to sell it 3990 euros on autoscout24.com few months ago. It was one of my first post at the very begining of this forum . Guess it was in October 2011. You should have done a lot of pictures when you sold this car. One of this pics was exactly the same that your second oettinger the black one (in the front of the "Grupo eulen" building).

The black is great as well! Hope I'm gonna see it on our "natioanl meeting" in June 2012 in Dijon?

Best regards,
Oett83

The white one is in Andorra from 2007. is possible someone copy the pictures from internet.

The black one is full restored. I will post new pics next week.

regards

Luis

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Hi luis
I think you misunderstood
I asked you about the damaged cylinder head
You did mention earlier that your cylinder head was damaged and that you had to replace it
I am asking you what was the damage on the cylinder head ?
And if i didnt misunderstood and you had to replace it if you would be willing to sale your damaged cylinder head
If it wasnt damage and that i misunderstood i do appology

Romain

romaingirardlamamy a écrit:Hi luis
I think you misunderstood
I asked you about the damaged cylinder head
You did mention earlier that your cylinder head was damaged and that you had to replace it
I am asking you what was the damage on the cylinder head ?
And if i didnt misunderstood and you had to replace it if you would be willing to sale your damaged cylinder head
If it wasnt damage and that i misunderstood i do appology

Romain

Yes, in the black oettinger I put a new engine a new cylinderhead because it was completly broke. I put a new oene that i bought of a member of this forum, VAGSport

On vas la faire en francais ce seras peut etre plus facile

As tu toujours ta culasse casse et si oui
Est ce que tu vend ta vielle culasse casse

J'espere que tu vas comprendre

Romain